# Frozen dead brought back to life in the last month **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 22, 2009, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frozen-dead-brought-back-to-life-in-the-last-month/482440 "2009-01-22T12:30:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frozen-dead-brought-back-to-life-in-the-last-month/482440/1 "2009-01-22T12:30:50Z")
I thought I’d link to two case of frozen on land people that have be restored to life in the last month. You hear about frozen drowned people being resurrected but not frozen land cases. The first case was the lady in Duluth that fell and couldn’t get back up. She dragged herself as far as she could. She had no heart beat and reached a low of 60F body temperature. [Duluth woman Freezing and alone, waiting to die](http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/37245029.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUnciaec8O7EyUsl) The second was a lady that left a bar and was found in a car lot without a heart beat. She has no idea what happened. [Milwaukee woman unsure how she ended up frozen in used-car lot](http://www.startribune.com/local/37943654.html?elr=KArksi8cyaiU9PmP:QiUiacyKUnciatkEP7DhUr) Add any other cases you know of to this thread. It needn’t be only land cases. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frozen-dead-brought-back-to-life-in-the-last-month/482440/2 "2009-01-22T13:06:06Z")
At 64 years of age, that’s pretty remarkable for the first lady. Isn’t it usually kids that fare best after a freezing episode? > [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > The second was a lady that left a bar \<…\> > She has no idea what happened. Even a thousand miles away, I’ve got a pretty good idea. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frozen-dead-brought-back-to-life-in-the-last-month/482440/3 "2009-01-22T14:00:46Z")
> [@](#): > > But there’s a saying in the emergency room, he said: “You’re not dead until you’re warm and dead.” Yes, I’ve heard the emergency med docs at my hospital say that. 🙂 I don’t think it made the news, but my hospital dealt with a case of a young man found outside last winter like these ones too. He ended up surviving and did fine. Some hospitals are investigating if people found in cardiac arrest at a normal temp have improved survival if they are then intentionally kept at a cooler than normal body temperature in the ICU after being resuscitated, to protect their organs from the usual irreversible brain damage/death that most cardiac arrest victims suffer. From what I’ve heard, it appears to be a very promising avenue. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frozen-dead-brought-back-to-life-in-the-last-month/482440/4 "2009-01-22T14:30:16Z")
Yep… [The “Cold Case” of NFL’s Kevin Everett](http://www.kirstenweir.com/files/COLDCASE.pdf). ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frozen-dead-brought-back-to-life-in-the-last-month/482440/5 "2009-01-22T14:37:05Z")
It’s pretty common in Duluth to add a little alcohol into the tank so the lines don’t freeze up. That’s why UMD is a party school. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frozen-dead-brought-back-to-life-in-the-last-month/482440/6 "2009-01-22T14:40:00Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Yep… [The “Cold Case” of NFL’s Kevin Everett](http://www.kirstenweir.com/files/COLDCASE.pdf). Fuckin’ massive PDF warning! (4 meg) ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frozen-dead-brought-back-to-life-in-the-last-month/482440/7 "2009-01-22T14:46:39Z")
Sorry, it loaded so quick here I hadn’t realized. Use [this](http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Story?id=3592871&page=1) instead, it’s just the ABC news story. (I’ve alerted the mods so a warning will preceed that .pdf) ---
**Author:** ![Peanut\_Gallery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/838e76/32.png) [@Peanut\_Gallery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanut_Gallery)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frozen-dead-brought-back-to-life-in-the-last-month/482440/8 "2009-01-22T14:52:16Z")
I first heard of this in Discover magazine last year. [http://discovermagazine.com/2007/may/suspended-animation](http://discovermagazine.com/2007/may/suspended-animation) > [@](#): > > Uchikoshi had stumbled and hit his head; he spent the next 24 days sprawled unconscious in the frigid air, without food or water. But when he arrived at Kobe City General Hospital, something remarkable occurred: He woke up. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frozen-dead-brought-back-to-life-in-the-last-month/482440/9 "2009-01-22T18:01:58Z")
> [@Peanut\_Gallery](#): > > I first heard of this in Discover magazine last year. > > [http://discovermagazine.com/2007/may/suspended-animation](http://discovermagazine.com/2007/may/suspended-animation) Now that’s truly amazing. I had no idea we were so close to “suspended animation.” With further research, this sounds actually feasible (and not very far off). Not sure about safe, but the applications in dire situations make this a definite possibility. If perfected, we could seriously be looking at a method for practical space travel across long distances. One thing space has is plenty of cold. Then again, if it takes 100 years to perfect (so that risk of death or brain damage is acceptable), then surely the speeds at which we’ll be able to achieve in inter-planetary space will increase as well. I wonder if it halts the aging process? Hmmm…